Hi Belinda – thank you for the kind words you left on my site – much appreciated. I do like the above beetle poem a lot – you obviously have a great love for the sounds of words – the playful texture of words in the mouth. It reminds me also of another poem I like: Cheerio My Deario (by Archie the Cockroach). Do you know it? http://bumbleshoot.tripod.com/poetry/marquis.html

Oh, I know and love ‘archy and mehitabel’. My Mum gave me the book to read when I was bored one day (about age 12). Some of my sayings come from there. ‘When in doubt, lick.’ for e.g.. I bought my own copy some years back and love it just as much as an adult.